SAPSASA Swimming Squad 2017

What a year our school team had at the Southern District tryouts last Wednesday. An impressive 26 kids made the school team with 36 training over the last 3 weeks of 2016 and weeks 2 and 3 of 2017. I would like to commend the swimmers for coming out each da y to work on improving their swimming skills and speed.

Our under 10s (Jed, Jai, Katrina, Isabelle, Olivia and Charlie S) were excited to be participating in this for the first time. We had more participants in our under 11s (Jake, Joshua, Mitchell, Charlie M, Jewel, Harry, Monique, Kelsey and Chloe) with many first timers as well. 2005 must have been an excellent year for swimmers with an incredibly competitive group of girls swimming very fast times in all strokes (Ashlee, Taya, Corey, Kayla, Mathilda, Alissa, Amelie and Skye). Charlie N was our only boy for this group and he had a very successful meet. Rounding out our team were our two 13 year olds (Sam and Tate) who gave it their all.

The most impressive part of the day was the fact that all swimmers gave 100% to their race and a comment was made to me about how kind and respectful all VHR-7 swimmers were to officials, parents, teachers and other students.